"electronic, acoustic, mechanical or other device" means any device or apparatus that is used or capable of being used to intercept any function of a computer; "function" includes logic, control, arithmetic, deletion, storage and retrieval, and communication or telecommunication to, from or within a computer; "intercept" includes, in relation to a function of a computer, listening to or recording a function of a computer, or acquiring the substance, meaning or purport thereof; Minister means the minister in charge of telecommunications; "program or computer program" means a set of instructions or statements and related data which, when executed in actual or modified form, cause a computer, computer system, or computer network to perform specified functions. (2) For the purposes of this Act, access of any kind by any person to any program or data held in a computer is unauthorised or done without authority if (a) he is not himself entitled to control access of the kind in question to the program or data; and (b) he does not have consent to access the kind of program or data in question from the person who is entitled to control access. (3) A reference in this Act to a program or data held in a computer includes a reference to any program or data held in any removable storage medium which is for the time being in the computer; and a computer is to be regarded as containing any program or data held in any such medium. (4) A reference in this Act to a program includes a reference to part of a program. (5) For the purposes of this Act (a) a program or data held in a computer or in any storage medium capable of being accessed and printed into readable form through a computer is a document; and (b) it is immaterial that access to a program or data held in a computer is achieved through the use of that or any other computer or by any other means. 5

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